What is the best way to vote to stop Reform at next GE

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HedgeKnights · 09/05/2026 06:43

As a more left leaning voter, I am happy to vote Labour, Lib Dem or Green. I am worried Reform will win the next GE and think Lib Dem might be the way to go, to keep them out. Not just as a tactical vote as I do like most of their policies.
Do people who don't want Reform in power need to to come together now behind one party, or is it more difficult than that
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Fluffypuppy1 · 15/05/2026 07:34

MeetMeOnTheCorner · 10/05/2026 12:10

@cantgardenintherain The millionaires pay the most tax. Any economist knows we’d tank without them. This is why student politics should be binned and millionaires work too. They employ the workers so yes, bleed them dry. How utterly stupid.

This.

Also Labour’s non-dom abolition resulted in a huge exodus of HNWI’s who were paying an average of £500,000 each in tax per year. That’s without including all of the staff salaries, and goods and services they were paying too.

Twiglets1 · 15/05/2026 07:44

keepswimming38 · 15/05/2026 06:41

Another one bites the dust 🤦‍♂️💥

A Reform UK county councillor in Staffordshire has resigned, triggering yet another by-election that local taxpayers will now have to pay for 😬

Barry Martin, who represented Stretton and Horninglow, says he stepped down due to physical health issues.

But the resignation comes after two complaints against him were upheld by a council standards panel, with another meeting due next week over his conduct and social media activity 👀

Most have been suspended not resigned:

Glenn Gibbins, Sunderland: suspended by Reform following allegations of racism (May 2026).
Jay Cooper, Sefton: declared “not welcome” by Nigel Farage following reports of him calling the Holocaust a hoax and then resigned from the party (May 2026).
Stuart Prior, Essex: expelled by Reform and resigned as a councillor after “he was accused the week before the elections of creating racist and Islamophobic posts on social media” (May 2026).
Stuart Prior, Rochford: as above; he had been a councillor on two different councils.
Ben Rowe, Plymouth: suspended by Reform after he had been “called out on multiple occasions for his offensive posts” (May 2026).
Ashley Monk, Redditch: resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute on Worcestershire Council, to which he’d been elected in 2025 and for more on which, see the other list below (May 2026).
Nathaniel Menday, Sheffield: suspended by Reform as he had “shared pictures of swastikas, Adolf Hitler’s book Mein Kampf and other far right iconography like the Sonnenrad, or ‘sun wheel’.”

https://www.markpack.org.uk/176783/how-many-councillors-has-reform-uk-lost-since-the-may-2026-elections/

Close-up photo of a blue and white Reform UK rosette worn by someone wearing a dark suit.

Sunderland councillor under investigation over racism allegations

Reform UK investigate Glenn Gibbins after his Sunderland election win on Thursday.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2pyy6ngz0o

specialsauce · 15/05/2026 07:51

keepswimming38 · 09/05/2026 07:19

Encourage more young people to vote as they tend to be less racist and more tolerant. As a teacher I’m going to be encouraging them.

Yes absolutely - that's another 1.5M voters that each party will need to consider and build policies for.

It could be a gamechanger as young people will want better opportunities for training, education and apprenticeships. This generation also have a strong sense of fairness and do not tolerate judgement of people for their differences.

I am very interested to see how each party approach this huge new voter demograph.

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